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Car Accident Sparks Electrical Fire Light Show

Car Accident Sparks Electrical Fire Light Show.   Crashing your car is bad enough on its own, but this car crash in Ontario, Canada turned out worse than most. Even the police who arrived to the scene couldn't do much but move back from the aftermath. The utility pole which this minivan driver crashed into begin to emit electrical fire down the line like bursts of low-altitude lightning. http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/infrastructure/news/a27248/car-accident-causes-midday-lightshow/

The Machines Are Learning To Gamble Like No Human Can

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The Machines Are Learning To Gamble Like No Human Can A British company wants you to trust its machine over your bookie. When it comes to betting, sports is all data. Since the 1970s, baseball has been revolutionized by the Society for American Baseball's (SABR) unique understanding of statistics. Now a company is attempting to utilize the vast wealth of data available in sports for gambling purposes, with an AI at the heart of its operation. Stratagem is a British company that takes bets on soccer games. Currently, it employs some 65 human experts who study matches across the globe and uses machine learning to automate parts of the process of betting, like figuring out when people like to gamble the most. But what's down the pike, founder Andreas Koukorinis tells potential investors and The Verge , is an AI that can watch a game in real time, and, with thousands upon thousands of data points, predict who can win. "They're short duration, repe...